alcaic

alcaic is a 6-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c.
2. noun. A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.
3. noun. verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus

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cicala

Common word forms

alcaics

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